Display rack



Feb; 13, 19230 1,445,123 L. ZIMMERMAN DISPLAY RACK Filed Apr. 14, 1922 Patented Feb, 13, 1923.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DISPLAY RACK.

Application filed April 14, 1922. Serial No. 552,679.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Lnwis L. Znnrnmmx, a citizen of the United States, residing at Miami, in the county of Ottawa and State of Oklahoma, have invented a new and useful Display Rack, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to display racks and more particularly to revoluble window display racks.

The objectof the invention is to provide a simply constructed and efficient window display rack which may be cheaply operated by air currents supplied from an electric fan.

Another object is to provide a rack of this character, the actuatingmembers of which will occupy a minimum amount of space.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed may be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 represents a side elevation partly in section of a rack constructed in accordance with this invention with the actuat ing means shown in side elevation, and

F ig. 2 is a vertical section thereof.

In the embodiment illustrated. a support ing base 1 is shown which may be of sl eleton or any other desired construction being here shown in the form of a spider or wheel from the center of which rises a tubular post 2 having mounted to rotate therein on ballbearings a vertical shaft 3. A smaller spi der 4 supports the upper end of post 2 and is connected by braces 5 to the base 1.

A pulley 6 is fixed to shaft 3 above its supporting structure and a driving belt 7 passes around this pulley and around another power actuated pulley 8, hereinafter to be more fully described.

Fixedly connected with the shaft 3 above pulley 6 is a platform 9 which may be of any desired configuration and from which rises a plurality of laterally spaced upright partitions 10 forming between them the compartments 11 in which the articles to be displayed may be mounted in any suitable manner.

As shown, the partitions 10 taper toward their upper ends, but obviously, their configuration may be varied if desired.

A supporting structure 12 is mounted below the platform 9 and has an upright shaft 13 revolubly mounted therein and which carries at its upper end the driving pulley 8. This shaft 13 also carries a plurality of propeller blades 14 any desired number of which may be disposed at any desired angle according to the direction the driving fluid is to be discharged thcreagainst.

An electric fan-is shown at 15 which is of ordinary construction and is arranged to direct air currents against the propeller blades 14 which operates to rotate the blades 14: and the shaft 18 carried thereby thus imparting motion through pulley 8, belt 7, and pulley 6 to the shaft 3 which rotates the platform 9 and the articles displayed thereon.

It is of course to be understood that any i desired number of compartments may be formed on the platform 9 and that the speed of rotation of the rack may be varied by changing the size of the respective pulleys and the strength of the air currents supplied by the fan 15.

From the above description it will be obvious that a display rack constructed as herein shown and described may be rotated indefinitely as long as the fan 15 is in oporation.

I claim The combination of a supporting structure, a shaft. mounted to rotate therein, a platform fixed to said shaft and having a plurality of partitions supported thereon, a pulley mounted on said shaft, another rotatably mounted shaft having a pulley con nected to rotate said first mentioned pulley,

and impeller blades carried by said second mentioned shaft.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

LEWIS L. ZIMMERMAN.

Witnesses:

M. BERKSHIRE, J. R. 

